{"id":9538,"date":"2019-01-07T00:21:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T07:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9538"},"modified":"2019-01-11T00:28:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T07:28:15","slug":"fighting-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/07\/fighting-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/weird-news\/751994\/nasa-news-spaceship-crash-asteroid-deadly-strike-earth-dart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The Daily Star<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"clear\">NASA to crash 13,500mph spacecraft into ASTEROID in mission to stop deadly strike on Earth<\/h1>\n<p class=\"lead\">NASA is planning to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid in the next phase of its planetary defence experiment.<\/p>\n<p>By <a class=\"author\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/search\/Rachel+O%27Donoghue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rachel O&#8217;Donoghue<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo kalooga_12952\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.dailystar.co.uk\/dynamic\/33\/photos\/69000\/620x\/5c3367a4ad048_asteroid1.jpg?r=5c337263b8485\" alt=\"NASA DART asteroid mission\" width=\"480\" data-w=\"620\" data-h=\"413\" \/><em><span class=\"caption new\">SAVE EARTH: NASA will practice stopping a catastrophic asteroid strike (Pic: GETTY)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The US space agency is working on the most fiery and crucial stage of its Double Asteroid Redirection Test, DART.<\/p>\n<p>The experiment will be the latest in NASA\u2019s mission to protect Earth from deadly asteroid strikes.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, it aims to fully test the new defence system by smashing a spaceship into a rock at 13,500mph (6 km per second).<\/p>\n<p>Space experts are worried an asteroid could potentially smash into earth causing catastrophic damage.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/weird-news\/751994\/nasa-news-spaceship-crash-asteroid-deadly-strike-earth-dart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at The Daily Star<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Daily Star NASA to crash 13,500mph spacecraft into ASTEROID in mission to stop deadly strike on Earth NASA is planning to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid in the next phase of its planetary defence experiment. By Rachel O&#8217;Donoghue SAVE EARTH: NASA will practice stopping a catastrophic asteroid strike (Pic: GETTY) The US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}